If you feel you can’t see as well at night, or you feel you’re lighting too low, or too high, in all these scenarios, there’s only one component of your car responsible – your headlights, as well named high beams. Nevertheless this adjustment may appear easy thanks to the thumbwheel on your dashboard, a complete adjustment is much more complex than this simple manipulation, and in this post, we are going to see how to adjust the headlights of your Jaguar F-Pace? To do this, first we will see why you need to adjust your high beams, and secondly how to adjust the headlights of your Jaguar F-Pace.

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Why adjust the headlights of your Jaguar F-Pace?

So let’s begin our article with the interest of adjusting the headlights of your Jaguar F-Pace. For most people, our headlights are adjusted good enough, and they appear to light up enough at night. Sadly this is not always the case and looking at this setting, either because the headlights on your Jaguar F-Pace are not bright enough, or because you have the sensation that they are too weak is a good idea .

Adjusting the high beams of your Jaguar F-Pace for safety

To begin with, the headlight adjustment of a Jaguar F-Pace must be carried out for a basic safety reason. If it’s for you, or for the other users you come across during your night trips. Indeed, if you don’t see enough, the risk is to miss out an obstacle driving, or to predict a curve badly. However, if your headlights are too strong, even if you are supposed to switch to low beam lights when you cross a vehicle, the time required to make this change will most of the time expose the driver in front of you to the headlight beam of your Jaguar F-Pace . It is therefore necessary for others as well as for you to have an optimal adjustment of your headlights.

Adjusting the headlights of a Jaguar F-Pace for legal reasons

In addition to safety, there is a law that supervises the power, the adjustment of car headlights (articles R313-2 of the Highway Code), here is what it specifies: have between 2 and 4 headlights that illuminate at least 100 meters. Another legislation supervises their use, the European one (directive 76/756/EEC), which stipulates that there is no maximum height for the adjustment of the headlights, but that the maximum width of the beam must be very same to that of the dipped headlights and that the maximum luminosity must be 225, 000 cd.

How to adjust the headlights of a Jaguar F-Pace?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most in this post, how to adjust the headlights of his Jaguar F-Pace? This adjustment may appear a bit difficult, but by following the recommendations you should have the ability to perform it without too much concern.

Preparations to adjust the headlights of a Jaguar F-Pace

To begin with, you’ll need to prepare your car to adjust your high beams in good conditions, here are the preparations to executed:

  • Place your car on a surface in front of a white wall for example, about 4 or 5 meters from the wall.
  • Check your tire pressure carefully.
  • Check that the height adjustment knob for the lights is set to 0
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  • Try doing that with half a full tank.
  • Take out all unnecessary weight from the automobile, only one person should be in the driver’s seat.

The headlight adjustment of his Jaguar F-Pace

Once your car is in position, you will turn on your dipped beam and make a cross-shaped mark (one horizontal and one vertical section) in the middle of the beam that will be projected on the wall. Check with a level that both parts of the cross are straight. Then back your car up to a distance of between 7 and 10 metres. For the rest of the procedure here are the steps to follow:

  • Open your bonnet, identify the screws for horizontal and vertical adjustment of the headlights of your Jaguar F-Pace (they are in general marked, and those on top must adjust the verticality and the one on the side controls the horizontality of the adjustment).
  • Use a cloth or something else to hide the projector on which you are not making the modification.
  • Using the screws to make the horizontal modification, you should have the most intense component of the beam which should be a little to the right of the vertical line noted on the wall
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  • With regard to vertical modification, you will have to use the screw to try to position the upper end of the beam at the level of the horizontal marking on the wall, or slightly down below.
  • Once finished, verify that the headlights setting of your Jaguar F-Pace is coherent, do not think twice to verify it after you have driven it, oftentimes it may move.

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If you want to adjust the fog lights on your Jaguar F-Pace, please read our article on this subject.

To find more tips on the Jaguar F-Pace, take a look at the Jaguar F-Pace category.